What is expressed here
cannot be truly understood. It is beyond the realm of the
analytical, sequential, thinking mind! Fortunately, through the
motivation I hope to inspire in this article, it can be directly
experienced, and only then known.

In 1980, I was already acknowledged as one of the leading innovators
and creators in the field of human potential. My celebrated,
cutting-edge work was achieving exciting results with individuals,
small select groups, and with very large audiences. Yet nothing
could prepare me for what was about to happen when one evening “the
ceiling opened up, the floor caved in, and the winds of Heaven blew
in!” My life was flooded with a transformational energy that I
would not fully assimilate for nine months. From that moment on, my
life and work would never be the same. This was my Kundalini, Holy
Spirit, awakening. In the future, my service to others would be
from the inside out as a connection point of Holy Spirit into the
world. My work exploded into a new dimension and my abilities to
facilitate growth and transformation were dramatically magnified.
However, I do not take personal credit for this. This is the work
of Kundalini, a spiritual passion of the Holy Spirit that ignites
higher evolution and enlightenment.

This is your birthright also, to be awakened to the higher essence
within. This is the energy of the spontaneous spiritual emergence.
It is the ultimate passion, where body and soul are united as divine
creative energy. This is the passion which changes everything.

In the West we have been conditioned to believe that Holy Spirit is
the serene background to our active lives, which we find within our
hearts and within our quiet moments of prayer and meditation.
However, if we look at the traditions of spirituality and wisdom
from other parts of the world, and even the Gnostic beliefs of early
Christians, we will find a very different story. In these
traditions, Holy Spirit is anything but passive. It is the very
fire that ignites Divine Revelation.

In the words of Jeshua (Jesus Christ, Jesus was never his name
during his life): “These things I have spoken to you, while I am
still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to
your remembrance all that I have said to you.” John 14:25-26

The spiritual practices of early Christian Gnostics were more like
Eastern traditions than Western Christianity as we know it today.
"Gnostic" is Greek for "knower" and it is "Gnosis" (or knowledge),
they were seeking. Unlike the blind faith demanded by most Churches
today, 'Gnosis' means direct, mystical experience of the Divine,
which blossoms through individual spiritual evolution into
self-realization. This cannot be found intellectually or within the
confines of dogma. The experience of Gnosis is trans-rational and
non-intellectual.

From the Nag Hammadi Library, in the Book of Thomas, Jeshua tells us
"For whoever does not know self, does not know anything, but whoever
knows self, already has acquired knowledge about the depth of the
universe." Compare this with a tract from the Upanishads, the
ancient Indian metaphysical treatise on self-realization: "It is not
by argument that the Self is known... Distinguish the Self from the
body and mind. The Self, the atman, the highest refuge of all,
pervades the universe and dwells in the hearts of all. Those who
are instructed in the Self and who practice constant meditation
attain that changeless and Self-effulgent atman (Spirit/Self). Do
thou likewise, for bliss eternal lies before you...”

In another secret Gnostic text, Jeshua promises us spiritual
fulfillment "I shall give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has
heard, what no hand has touched and what has never arisen in the
human mind." This description is not unlike the Upanishadic
experience "The Self is devoid of birth and death, it neither grows
old nor decays, and the accidents of life do not affect it. The
Self transcends space and time; what is great is not too great for
it to comprehend and what is small is not too small to escape its
attention. It is the Self of All.”

The Gnostic “Gospels” say there is in everyone a divine power
existing in a latent condition. This, the root of the universe, is
one power divided above and below, generating itself, making itself
grow, seeking itself, finding itself, being mother of itself, father
of itself, sister of itself, spouse of itself, and daughter of
itself. That infinite power exists in two modes: one actual, the
other potential.
“The Kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21).

What Jeshua called Holy Spirit, is known as Kundalini in India.
Kundalini has been universally recognized as the conveyer of Divine
Activation. Other traditions, by other names, have also
acknowledged its power. The Greeks referred to this energy as "Pneuma,”
Islam speaks of "Rh,” and in Jewish mysticism it was known as "Shekkina.”
Long before that, the Sumerians worshipped the Mother Goddess Inanna,
who gives spiritual birth and the sacred breath. Several thousand
years ago, "Chaitanya" and "The Self,” literally translated as
"divine vibrations" according to Sahaja Yoga. Knowledge of these
divine vibrations is very ancient; it has merely been distorted or
lost over the ages.

My good friend Shri Mataji, the founder of Sahaja Yoga, refers to
Kundalini as the reflection of divine desire within us. She refers
to the Holy Spirit of our Christian tradition as the Primordial
Mother, sometimes also known as the Adi Shakti in the Indian
tradition. “By crossing the fontanelle bone (the little fountain)
on top of our heads, the Kundalini actualizes self-realization, our
second birth or baptism. … This is the very same wind of the Holy
Ghost that Christ's disciples felt at Pentecost. Before this
experience, the Kundalini is dormant, and so only virtual. Once it
is awakened and self-realization is established in us, it enables
the breath of God to become reality.”

Traditionally, the knowledge of this energy has been a closely
guarded secret, revealed by Spiritual Masters to only a few close
and select initiates. It tends to be spoken of in veiled symbolic
language, if it is spoken of at all. Buddha spoke of the "middle
path" to achieve nirvana as he described the central channel (sushumna)
through which this Essence ascends. Later Buddhist masters
considered that the existence of the path of liberation within a
human being was the greatest secret which was only to be transmitted
to a few "deserving" disciples.

Kundalini is actually a power within and available to everyone. I am
often asked “does it always require a God-conscious, enlightened
Master to activate and initiate Kundalini”? My answer is always
“no.” However, it helps immensely. Just as the phenomenon of
spontaneous combustion occurs (although rarely) in the physical
world, Kundalini activation may also occur spontaneously (although
even more rarely). Imagine yourself as a candle. Would you hope
that somehow you would light yourself? Or would you work with
another unlit candle to light yourself? Or would you go to a lit
candle and let the spark of the lit candle ignite you?

The predicament of most human beings is to identify with lower
mind-consciousness, which is trapped in matter. Fortunately, there
are greater dimensions of consciousness yet to be revealed! Through
intense prayer, meditation, and unconditional love, these buried
sparks of human consciousness can be fanned into a blazing fire and
liberated from their imprisonment in the darkness of ignorance.
Both personal and collective consciousness can be raised until it
rests in the crown from whence the experiencer attains ecstatic
visions and realizes his own divine nature.

The transformation from matter and darkness, to spirit and light, is
universally acknowledged as the task of Kundalini, the Divine
Consciousness or Essence within us. The strength of the inner
energy of wholeness - the "Whole-E Spirit" is what allows us to
expand infinitely so that we can see the whole universe within
ourselves. Then, we no longer remain a limited, bound creature as
we achieve total union with Universal Consciousness, to stand self
reliant, unshakeable, and inviolate in the innocence of our
integrity.

The “Inner Whole-E Spirit” is there to nourish, to heal, to look
after; and, to give an individual a higher and deeper
individuality. The manifested power of Kundalini, Holy Spirit, is
absolute purity, auspiciousness, self respect, pure love,
detachment, concern for others; and, enlightened attention giving
infinite joy and peace to an individual (and through that
individual, to the world.)

Although we can engage in appropriate practices for its cultivation,
the awakening of Kundalini is something we cannot preconceive. It
is a gift of Divine Essence caressing and awakening the great love
and inner power in which we were created. We discover it through
acceptance of the greater spiritual power within ourselves as we
reach for radical honesty - emotionally, socially, and spiritually.

Dr. Larry
Jensen, Ph.D., M.B.A., D.D.
Dr. Jensen is the Archbishop of Spiritis Church (the original Church
founded by Christ and his Apostles.)
Dr. Jensen has been a moving force in many of the major spiritual
and psychological programs. He was the co-creator and co-founder of
Lifespring (over a million graduates world-wide). He is a past
president of SAGE Seminars and Alpha Dynamics Institute, and was
chief consultant to Mind Dynamics. He was a consultant to Jose
Silva of Silva Mind Control and Werner Erhard of EST. Dr. Jensen
developed the Psychogenesis® Process and is the creator and founder
of ASSET® (Awareness, Sensitivity, Spiritual Enlightenment, and
Transformation) - the most advanced psychological and spiritual
growth seminar known.

His latest contribution is “The Holy Spirit, Kundalini Activation
and Initiation (two-disc DVD) Program,” in which the viewer is
offered an actual experience of Kundalini awakening. Kundalini,
known in the West as Holy Spirit, operates unconsciously until
awakened through Initiation, activating the process of spiritual
growth and enlightenment; and, advancing personal evolution
dramatically. This ground-breaking DVD can be found at
www.LoveWithoutEnd.com (see Dr. Larry Jensen, DVDs). For more
information about Dr. Jensen and the original Way of Jeshua, see: